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An Evaluation of Open-Source LMS for E-Learning Courses International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering Open Access Review Paper Volume-3, Issue-4 E-ISSN: 2347-2693 An Evaluation of Open-Source LMS for e-Learning courses Prabha Kumari 1* and Sanjeev Thakur 2 1Department of Comuper Science & Engineering, Amity University, India www.ijcseonline.org Received: Mar/26/2015 Revised: Apr/06//2015 Accepted: Apr/19/2015 Published: Apr/30/ 2015 Abstract — Due to rapid growth in the e-Learning area evolution is seen in the education sector e-Learning is the most effective mode of education by providing learner convince to access the study material anytime, anywhere according to their convenient . LMS and LCMS is the backbone of any e-learning system. Learning Management System and Learning Content Management System is software tool essential to the deployment and management of e-learning courses. In e-Learning area there are various proprietary as well as Open Source LMS exists in the market. In the past few years there are numbers of open source LMS emerged as alternative to the proprietary LMS. In this paper we concentrated on the open source LMS Moodle, Sakai, eFront and Forma LMS. This will help the administrators and educators and organisation in choosing of learning management system that is most suitable for their needs . Keywords—LMS, Open source ,Moodle, Sakai, eFront and Forma Lms I. INTRODUCTION in higher education sector. The course related activity such as lecture, online assignments, discussion and quizzes are E-Learning is the new generation’s learning methodology available to the students through this system. It provide which facilitates learner’s flexibility to learn at their own common platform to both teacher and student for online pace, place & time . The e-learning, in fact is learning or learning and training. For user point of view LMS must be training that is prepared, delivered or managed using a interoperable and integrate well with existing systems. It variety of learning technologies and which may be deployed should be flexible and adaptable to changing pedagogical either locally or globally.A Learning Management System needs. It must be cost effective, scalable and sustainable. (LMS) is a software system that provides tools to support a A most general feature of any e-Learning system has learning/teaching process. LMS provides communication 1. Centralise and automate administration tools such as video-conferencing, email, evaluation tools 2. Uploading and publishing of course content. such as survey, quizzes, or grading tools. The use of a LMS 3. Delivery of course content over web-based system is very interesting for any kind of learning, but in the case 4. Interaction between students and teacher, such as of distance learning, there is a wide variety of LMSs, both instant messaging, email, and discussion forums. open-source such as Moodle, Sakai and proprietary such as Blackboard. A key point with regard to the use of a LMS is 5. Assessment and Grading which LMS should be used for each specific case. This decision must be made taking into account objective data A. Types of LMS such as the levels of use of the hardware on which the LMS There are basically two types of e-Learning Management will be hosted and subjective information such as the System available for the users. experience and opinion of users of the system. Open Source e-Learning System : The open source In this paper we will evaluate the common feature of four Learning Management System is a software which source widely-used open-source LMSs, namely Moodle, Sakai, code is available to public. Which allow to anyone to copy eFront and Forma Lms. and make changes without any restriction .The Open source . LMS which source code is freely available. It means that we can access the code customized according our need without II. LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM and license and copy right issue. For high level of customization according to our requirements. The open The Learning Management System or LMS is the backbone source e-Learning System are Moodle, eFront, sakai etc. of e-learning which provides the essential components required for hosting of the e-learning contents Proprietary e-Learning System : Proprietary LMS The Learning Management System is a software application software is developed and owned by a profit-generating which is used to automate the administration, tracking and entity that does not let users access and make adjustments to reporting the education and training activities. e-Learning the computer code that determines the structure of the is now become the primary delivery mode of the education software and the activities it can execute. This system is © 2015, IJCSE All Rights Reserved 26 International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering Vol.-3(4), PP( 26-29) April 2015, E-ISSN: 2347-2693 available on payment of the license fee for the use of the standard SCORM packages) and assess learning using system. Source code and customization is restricted to the assignments or quizzes. organization which develop the system. The example of proprietary LMS are Blackboard, Courseera, Desire2Learn B. Sakai etc. [2] Sakai LMS is a community of academic institutions, III. WHY USE AN OPEN SOURCE LMS commercial organizations and individuals who work together to develop a common collaboration and Learning Now a day’s open Source System is as much as popular as environment. Sakai is also a free, community source, any proprietary software .For example educational software platform distributed under the Joomla,Drupal,Moodle is as much as popular to the Educational Community License (a type of open source proprietary software license). Sakai is used for teaching, research and Like Blackboard, WebCT. There are some criteria for the collaboration. Systems of this type are also known as selection of any system is Budget, Stability , Flexibility , Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Usability and Adaptability to various cross platforms and Management Systems (LMS), or Virtual Learning hardware like mobile, internet, tablet pcs, etc Environments (VLE).The Sakai Project's software is a Java- Most of the open source LMS full fill the above criteria due based, service-oriented application suite that is designed to to cost effectiveness open source LMS can be used. be scalable, reliable, interoperable and extensible. A. Benefit for open source LMS: C. eFront • Cost effective solution • No license or copyright issue. [5] eFront has been designed to minimize the clicks to go • Large community support from one point of the interface to another. The sidebar helps • Code is available open to the user as a central navigation or search point throughout the • Multilingual support system. • Most of open source LMS are platform The use of AJAX technology minimizes the need to transfer independent data between the server and the client improving the system response time and the users’ experience. eFront comes with These are the few reason that education sector prefer cost a complete set of features to create content, tests, effective open source LMS for the e-Learning material assessments, track progress, issue certifications and dozens design, development and publishing. of add-ons to support wikis, blogs, youtube videos, picture lists F.A.Qs, external links etc. It has also been tested and IV. REVIEW OF OPEN SOURCE LMS improved from a wide community of users throughout the world that is very active and helpful. In all aspects,eFront is In this section, we briefly review the open-source e-learning a mature system that has been built to offer a rich learning platforms considered in this work for comparison from the experience, to be better than open-source systems and at the user and technical point of view. same time more effective than other professional learning solutions. eFront is certified for its compliance with A. Moodle SCORM standard. [3] Moodle (modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment ) is a good alternative to proprietary D. Forma Lms commercial online learning solutions, and is distributed free under open source licensing. An organization has complete [1] Forma Lms is an open-source, web-based elearning access to the source code and can make changes if needed. platform (Learning Management System - LMS), used to Moodle’s modular design makes it easy to create new manage and deliver online training courses. Forma LMS courses, adding content that will engage learners. It is free was awarded with best open source e-Learning web based application available to the educator to create the Solution award. It's based on a network of companies that online line learning courses effectively. Moodle.org is the support its development and it's focused on corporate community site where Moodle is made and discussed. There training needs, rather than on academic needs as many other are various features available in Moodle such as Forums, open-source projects forma Lms is an open-source, web- Wikis, Databases and online student tracking, Grading and based elearning platform (Learning Management System - many more to build richly collaborative communities of LMS), used to manage and deliver online training learning around their subject matter, while others prefer to courses. It's based on a network of companies that support use Moodle as a way to deliver content to students (such as its development and it's focused on corporate training needs, © 2015, IJCSE All Rights Reserved 27 International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering Vol.-3(4), PP( 26-29) April 2015, E-ISSN: 2347-2693 rather than on academic needs as many other open-source i) Searching : Used to search the content in the system .All projects. the four LMS has this facility. V. COMPARISON OF LMS FEATURE A. Figures and Tables LMS Sakai Moodle eFront Forma In this study we generally consider four open source LMS Lms on the basis of feature to choose the right system.
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